The Clinical Interpretation of MMPI-2

Under managed care pressure, the MMPI-2 is now called on to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Integrating old and new empirically-supported scales, this book lays out a content cluster interpretive approach

Edward E. Gotts, Thomas E. Knudsen

Contents: Preface. Guide to Scale Names Referenced in Text. A Content Cluster Approach to MMPI-2 Interpretation. Assessing the Quality of the Test Record: The Validity and Response Style Scales. Status of the Basic Scales. Synopsis of the Special Scales: Sources and Interpretation. Overview and Results of a Clinical Research Program. Renewing the Old: Scale Recoveries and Losses. New Developments for MMPI-2. The DSM and Axis I Conditions. Clusters, Personality Traits, and Disorders. Prognosis and Risk Management Scales. Conjoint MMPI-2 and Rorschach Interpretation. Interpreting the Individual MMPI-2 Record. Appendices.